Re: [homenet] DNCP/HNCP Revisited

Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> Thu, 19 September 2019 13:11 UTC

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Subject: Re: [homenet] DNCP/HNCP Revisited
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Yes, of course. We can never change a standards track protocol. That would be wrong. :)

What I’m trying to understand is how bad a problem this is. 

> On Sep 19, 2019, at 04:56, Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@irif.fr> wrote:
> 
> 
>> 
>> This still doesn’t address the problem that the HNCP packet needs to be
>> fragmented.  Fragmented Multicast doesn’t scale well.
> 
> HNCP doesn't fragment multicast, it only uses fragmentation for (link-local)
> unicast.  This is way less severe than what you incorrectly claim.
> 
> At any rate, the right time to discuss that was 2015, not now.  HNCP is
> a standards track protocol, and there's nobody left who's willing and
> competent to work on a new revision.
> 
> -- Juliusz